The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-04


watch the hats and to2t. OF the muriercrs
who are riassacreing Gods caillren- There
goes the same man This time he is afoot
Where Is he going nows Going on the road
to Ostia ID die for Christ. They tried to
whip it out Of him; they tried TO scare
it out of him; they thought they
woul1 give him enough of it
by putting HIM into a windowless dungeon,
ana keeping him on small diet. and deny
ing him cloak, end condemn;ng him as
criminal, and bowling ct hum through the
street But they could net freeze it out OF
him, and they could not sweat it cut OF
him, and they could not pound it on. OF
him, so they tried the surgery Of the sword,
and one summer day in Is he was decapi-
tatei. Perhaps the mightiest intellect OF
the 900 years of the world existence WAS
hoodwinked, cheated, caloled, duped By
the Christian religion
All, that is the remarkable thing about
this dcusion of Christianity, it overpowers
the strongest intellects Gather the crit
les. secular and religious. of this country
together. AMI put a vote TO them as to
which is tie greatest book ever written,
ard by a large majority they will say
Paradise Lest Who wrote paradise
Lost,- One of the fools that believed in
this Bible, John Milton.
Ben iGuiiu Franklin surrendered to this
delusion. if you may judge from the letter
he wrote to Thomas Paine, begging HIM to
destroy the age OF Reason in manu-
scrip. and never let it go into type, and
writing afterward, in his Old days: ''Of
this Jesus OF Nazareth have to say that
the system of morals He left and the re-
ligion He gave US are the best things the
world has ever seen or is likely TO see.'
Patrick Henry, the electric champion of
liberty. was ensiaved by this deluston. SO
that he says: THE book worth all other
books put together ia the Bible"
Benjamin Rush. the leading psychologist
! and anasomist OF his day, the great medical
scIentist-what did he says The only
true and perfect religion is Christiaaityl'
Isaac Newton, the leading philosopher of
his time-what did he say. That man, sur
rendering to this delusion Of the Christian
/ religion, cried out: THE suolimest phi
! losophy On earth is the philosophy of the
| Gospel"
| David Brewster, at the pronunciation Of
whose name every scientist the world over
bows his head-David Brewster SAID: 20,
! this religion has been great light to me,
| very great light all my days"
President Theirs. the great French
| statesman, acknowledged thai he prayed
when he said: Il invoke tho Lord God in
whom am glad to believe
David Livingstone, able to conquer the
lion, able TO conquer the panther, able to
conquer the savage, yet conquered by this
deiusion, this Authorization, this great
swindlc Of the ages. so when they ind him
dead they End him on his knees.
| William F. Gladstone. the strongest in
! telIect in England to-day, unable to resist
| this chimera, this fallacy, this delusion of
the Christian religion. goes to the house OF
/ God every Sabbath. and often. at the invi-
tation OF the rector, reads the prayers TO
the people.
| o. if those mighty irtellects are over
borne by this delusiou, what chance is
/ there for you and for I-les
Besides that. 1 have noticed that first
rate in fidels can not be depended on for
steadfastness in the proclamation of their
sentiments. Goethe, leading skeptic.
was 50 wrought upon by this Christianity
that in a weak moment he cried out: MY
! belief in the Bible has saved me in my
literary and moral life.''
| Rousseau, one of the most eloquent
champions of inf ielIty, spending his whole
lie warning against Christianity. cries
out: The majesty Of the Scriptures
samazes me-"
Altamont the notorious infiiel-one
wouli think he would DO safe against this
delusion of the Christian religion. Oh. no.
After talking against Christianity all his
days in the last hour of his lie he cried
out: ''oh. Thou blasphemei but most in
/ dugent Lord God, hell itself IS refuge II
it hide me from Thy frowa-'
Noltajre, the most talented iniiel the
world ever saw, writing two hundred and
fifty publications. and the most of them
spitef1l against Christianity, himself the
most notorious Ebertine Of the country
one would have thought he could have
been depended upon for steaifastness in
the advocacy of intidelty and in the war
against this terrible chimera. this deIusicn
OF the Gospel But no; in his last hour he
asks for Chistian burial and asks that they
give hun the sacrament of the Lord Jesus
CnrIst
WY. you can not depend upon these
first-rate iniidels-you can not depend upon
their power to resist this great delusion OF
Christianity. Thomas Paine, the god OF
modern skeptics. his birthday celebrated
in New York and Boston with great en-.
thusiasn-Thonas Paine. the paragon of
Bible haters: Thomas Paine, about whom
his brother iniael, William Carver, wrote,
in letter which have at my house, say
ing that he drank a quart Of run day
and was too mean and too dishonest to
pay for it; Thomas Paine, the adored
OF modern infideity; Thomas Paine. who
stole another mans wife in England and
brought her to this land; Thomas Paine,
who was so saua.id. and so loathsome, and
SO drunken, and so proHigats, and SO beast.
~ in his habits, sometimes picked out Of
the ditch, sometimes too filthy to be picked
out, Thomas Paine one would have
thought that he could have been depended
on for steadfastness against this great de-
fusion But no. In his dying hour he begs
the Lord Jesus Christ for mercy.
Powerful delusion, allconGueriug delu
sion, earthquaking delusion OF the Chris
tan religion. Yea it goes on, it is so i'm
pertinent and it is SO overbeariug, this Chi
mera OF the Gospel, that having conquered
the great picture galleries OF the world
the old masters and the young mas tiers, a.
l showed in former Sc rmon, it is net sat
isied Until il has conquered the music O.
the world. Look over the programme o.
that magnificent musical festival g few
years ago in New York and see what were
the great performances, and learn that thu
greatest OF all the subjects wer,
religious subjects. What was it enc nigh
when three thousand voices were accom-
/ pan Gu Win vast uUI1Der Oh lnStrUilSEl -
Israel IN Egypt" Yes. Beethoven de
luded untE he wrote the high mass in
major. Haydn deluded with this religio.
until he wrete the Creation Handel de
iuded until he wrote the oratorios: ..Jeph
thah.n and Esther" and SAUL" anl
Israel IN Egypt and the Messiah" Or
tie closing night 5000 deluded people sing
ing of delusion to eight Thousand deludet
hearers.
Yes, this chimera OF the Gospel s NO
satisfied until il goes on and builds itsel1
into the most permanent arcaitectlre. Sc